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'''Kaladin''' (<small>Alethi pronounciation:</small> [[Wikipedia:Help:IPA|[ˈkæl·ə·dɪn]]] [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key|'''''<small>KAL</small>'''-a-din'']]), nicknamed '''Kal''', renowned as '''Kaladin Stormblessed''', is a [[darkeyes|darkeyed]] [[Alethi]] male [[Surgebinder]] who is on the path to becoming one of the first [[Knights Radiant]] since the [[Recreance]] on [[Roshar]]. Born and raised in the town of [[Hearthstone]], he started training with his father, [[Lirin]], to be a surgeon at age eight. The family had a more or less happy and peaceful time until the Citylord [[Roshone]] accused Lirin of thievery of a substantial amount of [[spheres|money]]. Roshone eventually had Kaladin's brother, [[Tien]], conscripted to [[Brightlord]] [[Meridas Amaram|Amaram]]'s army. In order to look out for his younger brother, Kaladin also joined.
 
Tien died in battle shortly after. Extremely depressed by this, Kaladin obsessively threw himself to his spear fighting practices. He was soon renowned as the best spearman in the army. In his final battle in Amaram's army in 1172, Kaladin killed a [[Shardbearer]]. Amaram wanted the Shards for himself, so he had Kaladin branded as a slave. He was eventually sold to [[Sadeas warcamp]]'s army where he was assigned to [[Bridge Four]] to work as a [[bridgeman]]. He was convinced by the [[honorspren]] [[Sylphrena]] to try to protect the bridgemen. He convinced the Bridge Four to escape because he realized that the purpose of the bridgemen was to be bait to the [[Parshendi]] arrows, and trained them as spearmen. In the [[Battle of the Tower]], when they had the chance to easily escape, he and Bridge Four saved the lives of [[Dalinar Kholin]] and his men. In return for their sacrifice, Dalinar freed all the bridgemen from slavery and offered them a job as soldiers in his army, to be trained and led by Kaladin.
 
Kaladin was granted the rank of captain and given command of a thousand former bridgemen. Along with training his men, Dalinar gave Kaladin the responsibility to protect the members of [[House Kholin|Kholin family]].
=== Early Life (1153–1168) ===
==== Childhood ====
Kaladin was born in late 1153 to a family of second [[nahn]], Lirin and Hesina, in the town of [[Hearthstone]] in [[Sadeas]]'s princedom]]. Two years later, his younger brother Tien was born. Because his family was the only one of second nahn in the town and the superstitions surrounding his father's work as a surgeon, Kaladin had to grow up mostly in isolation. As a result, he was very close with his brother and, after being encouraged by his family, became friends with the daughter of the citylord, [[Laral Wistiow]]. As a child he didn't want to be called by his full name, because he thought "Kaladin" was a lighteyes name; instead he went by "Kal." When he reached age eight, his father started training Kaladin in surgery. He was talented and learned quickly.{{ref|b|twok|c|10}}
 
[[File:Kaladin_young.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Kaladin as a child by [[User: Botanica]]]]
Kaladin spent the next eight months under five different slavemasters in harsh conditions of constant beatings and deprivation. He always demanded his wages be given to him as was required by the law, but the slavemasters always managed to cheat him out of it by charging for housing or food. He managed to keep his defiance and made ten escape attempts, even managing to get away a few times, but he was always captured and taken back. Around his sixth month of slavery, he noticed [[Sylphrena|a windspren]] following him around. He spent time with a [[Selay]] man<!-- named Goshel --> who told him about about the [[Old Magic]] and its ability to curse people under his fifth slavemaster. In his last escape attempt, he led a group of twenty armed slaves, but all of them except Kaladin died. According to Kaladin, he should have been killed for that, but finding him "intriguing," his previous master branded his forehead with the ''shash'' [[glyph]], meaning dangerous, in addition to the ''sas nahn'' [[glyphpair]] already there and sold him for a pittance to another slavemaster named [[Tvlakv]].{{ref|b|sa1|c|2}}{{ref|b|sa1|c|4}}{{ref|b|sa1|c|43}}
 
Tvlakv brought Kaladin to the [[Shattered Plains]] and sold him to [[Sadeas]]'s warcamp]]. Kaladin tried to convince the lighteyed woman, Brightness [[Hashal]], who was responsible for the acquisitions of slaves to make him a spearman but was sent to the [[Bridge Four]] to work as a [[bridgeman]] in {{date|1173|EoS}}.{{ref|b|twok|c|6}}
 
=== Bridge Four (1173) ===
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